Daniel Defoe's a Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19: A Tale of Two Pandemics

by Stuart Sim

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two chronologically distant societies in crisis, this study compares the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct of the public portrayed in the book and those in our own embattled Covid era. There are interesting similarities to note, with equivalents to the Covid-deniers and the anti-vaxxers to be found in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031312856
• ISBN13: 9783031312854
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"